Rationale:
This lesson will help students to identify the correspondence:
/i/=/i/ in spoken and written words. By using the representations of
“Figgie
the itty bitty kitty”, letterbox lessons, and practicing identifying
and
distinguishing the short i sounds students will better understand how
to
associate the grapheme with the phoneme.

1.The English
language is a difficult code, as
readers we have to pick out the sounds in words and find the matching
letter. This
is Figgie the itty bitty kitty she says /i/.Can
you say /i/? Let’s practice together and see what our
mouths do as we say it. i, is heard with the letter I and it is the
short vowel
sound.

2.Lets pull out our
phonics phones and get ready to
say our chant together. As I read the chant first listen and follow
along with
the pointer. See if you can hear the short i sound and the letter i in
the
chant. “ Figgie the itty bitty kitty sings a silly little diddy she
says i, i,
i (echo, i, i, i)”

4.Now I am going to
say some words and I want you to
think about Figgie the itty bitty kitty and say the words in your
phonics phone
as you find the /i/ in: (pit, pet)
(rid, red)(lad, lid) (flip, flop) (bat, bit)
(tick, tack). When you hear /i/ write on your paper number 1 for
the first
word or 2 for the second word. (Assess students choices)

5.Sing the chant
again, Do a letterbox lesson with
words in the material section. Tell students a word and have them break
it into
phonemes using the boxes. Each phoneme has a box. Model the spelling
and
decoding of sprint (6 phonemes) by first using the word in a sentence
by saying “ The horse
will sprint to the finish line”; say each sound
/s/,/p/,/r/,/i/,/n/,/t/, and
then set-up 6 boxes to show students how to construct the word using
the boxes by placing each phoneme in a seperate box.

6.Break children into
partners and pass out the story
“Liz is Six”, I will explain that Liz is having a birthday party for
her sixth
birthday, a lot of exciting things happen until she plays a game with a
pig
that gets really close. Do you think Liz will win the game? What do you
think
will happen? Let’s find out in “Liz is Six”. Practice reading this
story with
your buddy and find the magic letter “i” that we talked about today.